The Emporium of arts & sciences . combs. James Parker, June 28; for a cement or terras, to be used inaquatic and other buildings, and stucco work. John Ching, June 28 ; for a medicine for destroying worms. Robert Miller, June 28 ; for a method of weaving all kinds of li-nen, cotton, woollen, and worsted cloths, by looms wrought by wa-ter, steam-engines, horses, or any other power. William Batley, June 28 j for an improveement in the workingof steam-engines. Daniel Davis, July 4 ; for an apparatus or machinery for cleansingor sweeping of chimneys, and extinguishing them when on fire,without sen
The Emporium of arts & sciences . combs. James Parker, June 28; for a cement or terras, to be used inaquatic and other buildings, and stucco work. John Ching, June 28 ; for a medicine for destroying worms. Robert Miller, June 28 ; for a method of weaving all kinds of li-nen, cotton, woollen, and worsted cloths, by looms wrought by wa-ter, steam-engines, horses, or any other power. William Batley, June 28 j for an improveement in the workingof steam-engines. Daniel Davis, July 4 ; for an apparatus or machinery for cleansingor sweeping of chimneys, and extinguishing them when on fire,without sending any person up the chimney. William Sabatier, July 4; for a method of retaining cotton,hemp, flax, hops, hay, and other articles, in nearly the same com-pass in which they can be compressed. INTELLIGENCE. Etching on Glass with Fluoric Editor has great pleasure in presenting to the public asmall landscape from an etching on glass with fluoric acid, one ofthe constituents of the ornamental Derbyshire spar. This engrav-. - • Intelligence, Sfc, £39 ing is not to be viewed with the eye of fastidious criticism; al-though in itself it is by no means an indifferent performance, yetits merit arises from its singularity. Probably, not one hundredpersons in the United States have ever had an opportunity of see-ing a similar production. The great difficulty of passing the glassthrough the press of the copper-plate printer, without breaking it,which, in common with others, the Editor has experienced, has al-ways prevented this species of engraving from being extended be-yond the etching itself. The only plate which is known to theEditor as successfully accomplished, is a frontispiece to the 3dLondon edition of Parkes Chemical Catechism. It is scarcelymore than a bare outline of some of the apparatus of chemical sci-ence ; and, although so rudely executed, as to bear no comparisonwith the present, yet Mr. Parke says of it, I have reason to be-lieve it exhibits a more
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